I have the same difficulty that Robert has - I can't play a CD in Linux. I can do it in Windoze without trouble. I buggered around with the mixer, which successfully changed the volumes of the other inputs (Wave, Line In) but still the CD channel was dead. FYI: Creative PCI 64 (about three years old now). CDROM is Aopen 32x12x48. Obviously not a cable fault and I had it plugged into the right port of soundcard.
I've given up bothering about it now. It's hardly worth the trouble, especially since the blasted KDE CD Player program dies when I make config changes I don't like. Cheers, Michael. >If Audio CDs play in windows but not in linux then there must be some other >problem. > >Can you play audio CDs in windows? > > >My sound problem is only with audio CD's - it seems that all other sounds > >work OK.
